Trump admin cancels more than $11 billion in mostly blue state projects

Driving the news: Russell Vought, head of the budget office, wrote on X that the Army Corps of Engineers will be pausing funding to "lower-priority projects" and considering them for cancellation.

• Vought said those include projects in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore.
• "The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to manage billions of dollars in projects," Vought wrote.

The other side: "This newly announced pause of preapproved funding for the Army Corps of Engineers projects in blue cities - including Baltimore - is another example of the Trump Administration placing partisan politics over the welfare of the American people," U.S. Rep Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) wrote on X.

Context: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs about 37,000 people and provides engineering services to both U.S.-based infrastructure and military projects abroad.

Between the lines: Vought's announcement continues the White House's targeting of federal money to Democratic-leaning states during the shutdown.

• On the first day of the shutdown, Vought announced that the Trump administration was freezing approximately $18 billion for two infrastructure projects in New York City.

• Vought also cancelled about $8 billion for climate-related projects in Democratic-leaning states like California, Colorado and Connecticut.
• The administration froze another $2.1 billion in Department of Transportation funding for the Chicago transit system.

Zoom in: Vought said more information is "to come" on what's paused and cancelled, but some cities have already announced projects that are likely on the chopping block.

• The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, for instance, already announced a plan to replace its Sagamore Bridge and Bourne Bridge, which are are owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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